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The campaign in Northwest Europe had commenced on 6 June 1944 (), with Operation Overlord, the Allied Normandy landings. [2]By early September, the Allied forces had reached the Dutch and German borders in the north and the Moselle in the south, [3] but the advance came to a halt due to logistical difficulties, particularly fuel shortages, and stiffening German resistance. [4]
American transportation played a crucial part in the military logistics of the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the expulsion of the German armies from Normandy in mid-September 1944 until December 1944, when the American Army was engulfed by the German Ardennes offensive.
American logistics played a key role in the success of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northwest Europe during World War II. The campaign officially commenced on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and ended on 24 July, the day before the launch of Operation Cobra.
American services and supply played a crucial part in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies from Normandy in mid-September 1944 until December 1944, when the American forces were engulfed by the German Ardennes offensive.
Arctic convoys of World War II; Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign; Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign; American logistics in the Normandy campaign; American logistics in the Northern France campaign; American logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany; American services and supply in the Siegfried Line campaign
The Big 'L': American Logistics in World War II (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press. pp. 145– 192. ISBN 978-0-16-048668-5. OCLC 36888452; Lutes, LeRoy (1993) [1948]. Logistics in World War II: Final Report of the Army Service Forces (PDF). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. OCLC 847595465
The potential impact of attacks on U.S. logistics hubs, refueling ships and aerial refueling tankers, was a "wake up call" for many lawmakers, said Becca Wasser at the Center for a New American ...
The War in the Pacific: Strategy and Command: The First Two Years (PDF). United States Army in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army. LCCN 61-60001; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (28 February 1942). "Executive Order 9082 Reorganizing the Army and the War Department". Executive Orders.